Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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